The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

In their early passions women are in love with the lover, later they are in love with love.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

The passions often engender their contraries.